Radishes:

Ohmigoodness, I'm so excited about my radishes.  I have an older planter bed of radishes that are almost ready to harvest.

I was thinking yesterday about the first time I dug away at dirt to look at the status of a root vegetable; I was so nervous.  I swear it almost felt like I was about to operate on someone!  I had to do it on some carrots I was growing to see how big they were, and I was really hesitant to clear the dirt away.  I don't know what I thought would happen.  Like maybe there was a root I would break by clearing away the dirt, and the whole plant would die?  Anyway, I finally got up the nerve to do it on my carrots, and now I'm a pro at it (that's what I'm doing above to the radishes).

So my radishes are going to be ready to harvest any day now.  I planted the ones from the picture above about a month ago now.  And you saw my picture from the previous post about the 16 radishes I planted about a week ago and that just started to sprout.

I wasn't able to go out tonight to look at all my radishes and check up on things, but they're growing fast!

And you know, the truth is, I've probably had radishes in my salads 5 times in my life total (at a restaurant)...  So in all honesty, I don't think I even know what a radish tastes like!  But I'm SO excited to have grown them!  And when my husband asked, "how do you prepare radishes," I replied that all I knew about was eating them raw in salads, and boy were we going to eat alot of salads!!  I've got 6 radishes growing in the old batch, and 16 radishes growing in the new batch.  So we're going to be eating them for a little while :)

And dammit, we're going to like them!!

Did you know you can eat the radish leaves by themselves?  I think once I harvest the radishes, I'll take the leaves and mix them in a salad, and see if my husband notices :)  He's really good about eating and trying lots of veggies, so I doubt he'd have a problem with it, but it'd be neat to see if he notices them!

Tomorrow's topic:  chickens!!